NASA, through its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is testing a new class of experimental rover technology that could reshape how future missions move across the Moon and Mars, according to a recent ...

What does the next generation of martian exploration look like? The answer, quite literally, is blowing in the wind. The Tumbleweed Mars rover, a spherical robot designed to roll across the martian ...

After nearly five years on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover's durability and gathering new science ...

Billions of years ago, environmental conditions on Mars were significantly more hospitable than they are today. Our neighboring planet was likely warm, humid and surrounded by a dense atmosphere.

NASA's PROMISE will be a hybrid of the rover replicas we have here on Earth. The plan is to send it to the moon, but it isn't quite ready for the trip yet.

Artificial intelligence has been advancing at an exponential rate over the past few years, prompting widespread concern that AI could start taking jobs away from real people. Unfortunately for the ...

Ever since the dawn of space exploration, remotely controlled rovers have been successfully used to explore alien worlds. Yet, for decades now, they have all crawled to various points of interest on ...

NASA's Mars rovers have accomplished a whole lot since the first one landed on the red planet in the late '90s, but even the latest members of the fleet still have plenty of limitations. For one, they ...

The Mars rover test model at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Christopher Halloran/Shutterstock Nobody likes to be the reserve driver. You don't want to sit back and be "support" while some other ...

Earth disappearing behind the tiny moon Phobos. Seen from nearly 195 million miles away, our planet was reduced to a single point of light before briefly vanishing behind Phobos. The rare alignment ...